- July 27, 2015The last time I visited Belfast, it was more a City in recovery, than the vibrant Metropolis it is today. Within…
- July 22, 2015A professor of Spanish and a professor of Gaelic met at a conference and began discussing the relative merits…
- July 20, 2015On the east bank of the River Barrow is St Mullin’s, a place of history and of legend. A…
- July 16, 2015In the middle of Lough Derg is a solitary, uninhabited, 49 acre island whose atmosphere takes visitors back to the…
- July 10, 2015Kilkenny Arts Festival is Ireland's oldest multidisciplinary arts festival programming classical music, music, theatre & dance, street, literature, visual art,…
- July 10, 2015The 144th playing of The Open, golf’s oldest championship, will be played over the Old Course at St Andrews. One…
- July 9, 2015Seagulls swirl around the trawlers entering the port of Killybegs, one of Ireland’s major fishing harbours. It is a rough…
- July 8, 2015Culloden Battlefield The Battle of Culloden in 1746, the last pitched battle ever fought on British soil, saw the defeat…
- July 1, 2015The ruins of Caerlaverock Castle, by Glencaple on a beautiful stretch of the Solway coast, are among the loveliest in…
- June 29, 2015This tiny island, surrounded by a salt lake and cut off from the sea by a sand bar, has been…